Story: Introduced animal pests

More links and websites

• Animal pests

  The Department of Conservation’s web pages on animal pests.

• MPI Biosecurity

  The Ministry for Primary Industries’ site describes their work in protecting the environment, biosecurity, and controlling pests and diseases coming into New Zealand. To report suspected exotic land pests, call 0800 80 99 66.

• Social wasps in New Zealand

  Landcare Research’s web pages on four species of wasps describe their life history, identification, distribution, impact and control.

More suggestions and sources

• Brockie, Bob. A living New Zealand forest. Auckland: David Bateman, 1992.
• King, Carolyn, ed. The handbook of New Zealand mammals. 2nd ed. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2005.
• McDowall, R. M. Gamekeepers for the nation: the story of New Zealand’s acclimatisation societies, 1861–1990. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 1994.
• Montague, T. L., ed. The brushtail possum: biology, impact and management of an introduced marsupial. Christchurch: Manaaki Whenua, 2000.
• Thompson, G. M. The naturalisation of animals and plants in New Zealand. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1922.
• Worthy, T. H., and R. N. Holdaway. The lost world of the moa: prehistoric life in New Zealand. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2002.